Celebrating Applied Physics, Featuring Stephen Chu the Rudder Forum Texas A&M University January 19, 2018
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The Hagler Institute for Advanced Studies and The Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering Celebrating Applied Physics, Featuring Stephen Chu The Rudder Forum Texas A&M University January 19, 2018 Prof. Steven Chu is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford University. He has published over 280 papers in atomic and polymer physics, biophysics, biology, batteries and other energy technologies. He holds 14 patents, and an additional 6 patent applications have been filed in the past 2 years. Dr. Chu was the 12th U.S. Secretary of Energy from January 2009 until the end of April 2013. As the first scientist to hold a Cabinet position and the longest serving Energy Secretary, he recruited outstanding scientists and engineers into the Department of Energy. He began several initiatives including ARPA‐E (Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy), the Energy Innovation Hubs and was personally tasked by President Obama to assist BP in stopping the Deepwater Horizon oil leak. Prior to his cabinet post, he was director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where he was active in the pursuit of alternative and renewable energy technologies and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University where he helped launch Bio‐X a multi‐disciplinary institute combining the physical and biological sciences with medicine and engineering. Previously he was head of the Quantum Electronics Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Dr. Chu is the co‐recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1997) for his contributions to laser cooling and atom trapping and has received numerous other awards. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Sinica, and is a foreign member of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Korean Academy of Sciences and Technology. He received an A.B. degree in mathematics, a B.S. degree in physics from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as 31 honorary degrees. 9:30 AM Presentation: Science and Technology Challenges in Mitigating Climate Change Risks In order to keep the global increase in temperature well below 2 degrees C above pre‐industrial levels, deep decarbonization of the world energy supply will be required. The technical challenges and potential solutions will be discussed, including novel approaches we are exploring for the hydrolysis of water and the reduction of carbon dioxide. 4:10 PM Presentation: Nanotechnology Applications in Biological Imaging, Air Filtration Our current applications nanotechnology to biological and biomedical imaging will be discussed. If time permits, optical microscopy studies of the super‐cooling of sulfur in lithium ion‐sulfur batteries will be included. The Hagler Institute for Advanced Studies and The Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering Celebrating Applied Physics, Featuring Stephen Chu The Rudder Forum, Texas A&M University January 19, 2018 9:00 AM Coffee/Light Breakfast Rudder Exhibition Hall 2 9:20 AM Welcome John Junkins (HIAS Director) and Marlan Scully (IQSE Director) 9:30 AM Science and Technology Challenges in Mitigating Climate Change Risks Steven Chu, Stanford University 10:30 AM Affordable Isotope Production at the Pointsman Foundation Mark Raizen, University of Texas 11:00 AM H atoms in solid H2: To BEC or not to BEC David Lee, TAMU 11:30 AM Lunch 12:30 PM Dynamical Control of the Resonant Interaction: Towards new x‐ray sources Olga Kocharovskaya, TAMU 1:00 PM TERS in biology and electrochemistry Dmitry Kurouski, TAMU 1:30 PM Biosensing with Nanodiamonds and Other Nonbleaching Particles Philip Hemmer, TAMU 2:00 PM Laser Thermogenetic Stimulation and Quantum Thermometry of Single Neurons Aleksei Zheltikov, TAMU 2:30 PM Break, Rudder Exhibition Hall 2 3:00 PM Applying Molecular Coherence to Biophotonics Alexei Sokolov, TAMU 3:30 PM Whispering‐gallery‐mode Microresonators and Their Applications Lan Yang, Washington University, St. Louis 4:00 PM Welcome and Comments on Bio‐Physical Engineering Michael K. Young, President, TAMU 4:10 PM Nanotechnology Applications in Biological Imaging, Air Filtration Steven Chu, Stanford University Prof. Mark G. Raizen received his undergraduate degree in mathematics with honors from Tel‐Aviv University in 1980. He continued his graduate education at The University of Texas at Austin, under the guidance of Steven Weinberg (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979) and Jeff Kimble (California Institute of Technology). Raizen completed his Ph.D. in 1989. He then was awarded a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder where he worked with Dr. David Wineland (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2012). Dr. Raizen returned to The University of Texas at Austin as an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1991. Dr. Raizen is now a tenured Full Professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin, and holds the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Physics. He also holds a joint appointment as Professor of Medicine at the Dell Pediatric Research Institute. He is the recipient of the I. I. Rabi Prize (1999), the Max Planck Prize (2002), and the Lamb Medal (2008), and a research award from the W.M. Keck Foundation (2015). Dr. Raizen is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. Dr. Raizen directs an experimental research program, and in recent years developed general methods for cooling almost any atom in the periodic table near the absolute zero of temperature. Beyond basic physics, these same methods will transform the way that isotopes are separated, providing crucial isotopes for humanity. 10:30 AM Presentation: Affordable Isotope Production at the Pointsman Foundation Isotopes of the elements offer great promise in medicine, basic science, and industry, but widespread use has been held back by their extreme cost. We have developed a new and efficient method for isotope separation, as an unexpected offshoot of basic physics research. The application of this work towards affordable isotope production is being pursued at the Pointsman Foundation, a non‐profit entity with the mission of bringing advances in the physical sciences to benefit humanity. Prof. David M. Lee was born in Rye, N.Y. USA on January 20, 1931. He attended Harvard University (Physics B.A., 1952), University of Connecticut (Physics M.S., 1955), and Yale University (Physics Ph.D., 1959). He served in the U.S. Army 1952‐1954. In early 1959, he joined the Physics Department at Cornell University where he remained until 2009, when he joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the IQSE at Texas A&M University. Throughout his career, he has been active in low temperature physics. Along with his graduate student Douglas D. Osheroff and Cornell colleague Robert C. Richardson, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of superfluidity in helium‐3. 11:00 AM Presentation: H atoms in solid H2: To BEC or not to BEC Electron spin resonance experiments at temperatures between 1.5 K and 0.09 K in a magnetic field of 4.6 Tesla in thin films (of order 0.1 microns) containing atomic and molecular hydrogen have been performed . The electron spins of the H atoms are already highly polarized in this temperature and field range. Evidence is provided to show that a phase separation occurs into phases with high and low concentrations of H atoms, respectively. The high atom concentration phase shows large nuclear polarizations (far in excess of that by the Boltzmann distribution) possibly attributable to strong Bose‐ Einstein correlations. If the H atom concentration is high enough, this might lead to a liquid phase which may therefore exhibit superfluid behavior or a topologically ordered phase such as that discussed by Kosterlitz and Thouless. Prof. Olga A. Kocharovskaya’s research is focused on Quantum, Coherent and Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Information Science, Attosecond Physics and X‐ray Optics. She has made pioneering and seminal contributions in Electromagnetically Induced Transparency, Lasing Without Inversion and Coherent Control of the Nuclear Transitions. Before joining the Physics Department at TAMU in 1998, she held the Leading Scientist position at the Institute of Applied Physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences and held an adjunct Independent Researcher position at the Free University of Brussels. She is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. She has received the Distinguished Scientist Award of the Texas A&M University Chapter of Sigma Xi, University Distinguished Professor Award, Association of Former Students and Texas A&M University Distinguished Achievement Award in Research, as well as the Willis Lamb Award for achievements in laser science and quantum electronics and the Outstanding Young Professor of the Russian Federation Award of the Russian Academy of Science. 12:30 PM Presentation: Dynamical Control of the Resonant Interaction: Towards new x‐ray sources The possibilities to dynamically control an interaction of high‐frequency radiation with a resonant medium (atomic and nuclear transitions in gases, plasmas or solids) by variation in time and in space of the parameters of such interaction under the action of the sufficiently strong far‐off‐resonant low‐ frequency field will be discussed. Recent advantage on the way to coherent intense attosecond sources in the soft ‐ ray range and suggest two paths towards intense coherent sub‐femtosecond pulses in the soft x‐ray range, namely: (i) time‐compression of ps radiation of the x‐ray plasma lasers without essential loss of the energy; (ii) amplification of the high‐harmonic radiation, will be reviewed. It will be shown that both paths can be implemented using essentially the same technique, namely, modulation of the resonantly absorbing/amplifying medium by a moderately strong IR/optical field.